Triads: Maximum avoidance with minimum runs

As the debate continues over energy bills, an increasing number of businesses are seeking to take greater control of costs by taking a more...

Centrica to start work on 49MW battery plant next month, calls for suppliers

Centrica is to start construction on its 49MW battery power station at Roosecote power station in Barrow next month and wants to hear from...

Scottish Power asks Ofgem to change classification of battery storage within capacity market

Scottish Power has proposed a change to the classification of storage within the capacity market. The energy firm says it is misleading to assume...

Real time is money: maximise flexible power revenues in all markets

REstore says its newest IoT-solution enables industrial and commercial consumers to achieve best bang for buck for their flexibility – opening up wholesale and...

Open Energi and Camborne Energy Storage take Tesla battery into frequency response market

Open Energi and Camborne Energy Storage (CES) will take a half megawatt Tesla battery into National Grid's Firm Frequency Response (FFR) market in the...

VLC Energy to connect 50MW of battery storage this year after EFR contract win

VLC Energy, a joint venture between Low Carbon and VPI Immingham, will connect 50MW of battery storage to the grid by the year end. The...

Capacity market ‘buying the wrong stuff because it’s joined up with nothing’

The capacity market is buying the wrong stuff, because it’s a single-issue policy that joins up with nothing, according to Flexitricity founder and chief...

Energy minister: Transitional Capacity Auction could procure 200MW more DSR

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has given the green light for more power to be procured in the Transitional Capacity Auction...

Society ‘must rethink its approach to electricity use’, says Ofgem networks chief

UK households and businesses have to understand that using as much power as they like, when they like, may soon become an expensive option,...

Greg Clark consents new Snowdonia pumped hydro plant

Work on a new 99MW pumped hydro scheme in North Wales will commence in the next 12 months after being given the green light...

‘Forget blackout Britain: Flexibility will solve capacity issue’

Policymakers should reject calls for the UK to return to double digit margins of power capacity over demand and let flexible plant and agile companies...

Ofgem consults on major network charges review, small generators, storage and private wires in...

Ofgem has launched a consultation on network charging arrangements ahead of a major review. Everything is in the frame, from all aspects of distribution...

Dong strikes deal to control Aggregated Micro Power’s Ashford flexible gas plant

Dong Energy will remotely control Ashford Power's flexible gas plant from its Denmark HQ after the two stuck a deal. The aim is to capitalise...

Can blockchain unlock demand-side response?

Blockchain technology could facilitate a fully decentralised energy system. Demand-side response would be a clear beneficiary, provided the industry cooperates, writes Electron chief operating...

Ofgem mulls how to regulate internet of things, what to do if people don’t...

Ofgem has outlined the exponential challenge of regulating a smart energy market over which it would currently have limited jurisdiction. In a new position paper,...

Vattenfall plans 22MW battery storage facility at South Wales wind farm

Utility Vattenfall plans to build its largest battery storage facility at a wind farm in South Wales. Subject to a final investment decisions, the 22MW...

National Grid procures 138.6MW of demand turn-up to balance grid in summer

National Grid has procured 138.6MW of fixed demand turn-up (DTU) provision, one of the ways it manages excess generation over spring and summer. Six...

Smartest Energy: Demand-side response auction to clear at £25/kW, more support needed

The capacity market auction specifically for turn down demand-side response (DSR) will likely clear around £25/kW, according to Smartest Energy. The so-called Transitional Arrangement...

Demand-side response capacity auction clears at £45/kW

The capacity market auction specifically for turn down demand-side response has cleared between £45 and £50/kW, according to the EMR delivery body. The exact...

Enernoc and Kiwi Power take biggest shares of £14m demand-side response auction

Aggregator Enernoc was awarded contracts worth £3.9m in the capacity market auction specifically for turn down demand-side response (DSR). The aggregator took 86.88MW of...